MY FIRST TIME TO AUSTRALIA
I had just turned 15 and was just on the phone to australian embassy in london a couple days before sorting out my citizenship mum being a aussie i was intitled to automatic citizenship just like i can get irish if i want that.The night before i was leaving i told all my friends and they said sure we'll see you tommorow and i said this time im going and they just laughed as i had told them i was going before but dont know why i did nt go earlier.my sisters where having another party and it was a late night i slept in the taxi driver woke me up i had a shitty haircut as my sister cut it the night before and belive me she was no haidresser i had the clothes on my back and nothing else i had black shirt black trousers and a black jacket and a chequered tie as i was a mod ,but not your typical mod i hung around with punks but was nt into their music to much or there clothes.that was it no bags as we had barly enough money as it was me and my sisters only , could just about make food most times.i had enough money for the taxi and train fare to go into aussie embassy to get my passport anyway dad was going to meet me in london.i got to london and got the train to a station cant remember which one but it was stop near the embassy and found my way to it no problems then i came out with my passport and had a quick look at house's of parilment then went and got the train i quickly relised that i was on wrong one so got off and caught the right one back to heathrow. i thought i'd ring dads house as his new wife would be there and to my suprise he was there to he could nt afford to come down i wasted my last money on that call so that was it no more money but why was i suprised he had done it to me before just was nt important enough, i checked in then went up stairs i had to wait from 1 pm till 10 p.m for the flight boy i drank a lot of water that day but ive went without food for days so this was nothing i heard my name on the loudspeakers so i went to see what i was wanted for they asked me why i had nt checked any bags in i replied"cause i dont have any clothes" they accepted this after a strange look i was let go . finally the plane and that was worse i tried some of the food but being a picky eater there was no way i never got any coke or soft drinks as i thought i had to pay for it same as headphones so i just sat there wishing i could have some coke or even watch the movie (only after i arrived did mum tell me the headphones were free and coke) i arrived in australia on 27 sept 1980 grand final day i remember saying that the supporters are walking together wheres the police escort, they laughed at me it was the same when we went into a shopping centre i waited for the gaurd to search me they did nt do that there either boy was this weird but it was good to i finally got to eat sauages i pigged out that night we went to a roller rink and i nearly got into a fight with of all people a taffy could nt stand them as only ones i had delt with was the army brats are they were brats they thought we should kiss their feet as there dads where saving us pigs chance.